User interface for the new file manager
jaanus
sodi at hot.ee
Mon Mar 21 10:00:04 CET 2005
Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> As some of you might already know, work was started on an alternative
> file manager for Xfce 4.4.0, named Thunar. We have been discussing the
> user interface for Thunar during the last two/three weeks. The result
> of this discussion is available at (short summary, see the mailinglist
> archives for details):
>
> http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:suggestion-20050320
>
> Since we've made good progress on the UI and a decision on the basic
> UI direction will take place in the not so far future, I wanted to get
> some more feedback from the other Xfce users, that did not raise their
> voice on thunar-dev yet.
>
> Note that we're just discussion the basic UI direction currently (as
> that's very important to decide before you start to design the
> architecture of the file manager); so please don't concentrate on
> implementation details in your comments, but instead, comment on the
> basic UI direction.
>
> From the 4 layouts shown on the summary page, only the first two are
> considered important, because that seems to be the way users want to
> interact with a file manager, where the second layout is probably used
> mostly by advanced users or users that have used Windows Explorer or
> Konqueror before. The first layout is based on the GtkFileChooser
> design in Gtk 2.4 and above.
>
> Comments please.
>
> greets,
> Benedikt
>
> PS: YES, development on Xffm 4.4 continues. And with Xffm switching to
> the spatial view (Edscott, correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that in
> a Wiki comment by you) and Thunar using the navigational view, we'll
> one file manager that follows the browser paradigm and one file
> manager that follows the spatial paradigm, so whatever you prefer,
> Xfce will offer a file manager for you. ;-)
>
> PPS: Please remember that Thunar's focus is on simplicity and ease of
> use if you want to suggest another feature.
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I hope "Shortcuts in the sidebar with path buttons" will still have the
firefox-like ctrl+l funcion (not dialog-like) like it had some time ago.
Will it?
h2k
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